PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — A woman who lives in Ambridge who was working in the World Trade Center in New York City on 9/11 has been denied compensation by a fund set up to help the families of victims and survivors.
Joyce Ceasar was on the 36th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center when the world was about to change forever.
“At approximately 8:45, the first plane hit the North Tower,” Ceasar said. “We smelled the jet fuel coming in through the vents.”
Although the PA system told workers to remain in place, Ceasar and her co-workers immediately descended the crowded stairway to street level, where she looked up to see people leaping from the North Tower.
“You saw them on the ledge and they just plummeted down,” Ceasar said.
In the years that have passed, the emotional trauma is recurring. At the same time, she has experienced a host of physical infirmities. She’s on oxygen for respiratory problems, had open heart surgery and has been diagnosed with melanoma.